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aokayalright: Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1988)

ohmy80s: St Elmo’s Fire (1985)

ohmy80s: 1988- TOM CRUISE / MIMI ROGERS / GOLDIE HAWN / KURT RUSSELL

vintagesalt: Grace Jones in A View to a Kill | 1985

audreyhepburnism: Audrey photographed by Philippe Halsman at the farm called La Vigna, just outside of Rome in 1955.

soundsof71: American Pie, by Don McLean, released November, 1971. Funny thing about this one: the single version is longer than the album version! The album version runs 8:33, but that was too long to fit on one side of a single in 1971. Instead, it’s split into sections of 4:11 (A-side) and 4:31 (B-side), to allow a little overlap when turning the record over. It’s understandable that people bring up “American Pie” when the anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper (JP Richardson) comes around every Feb. 3, because that’s where the song starts. After that, though, it goes further into America, politics, religion, fantasy, reality, dreams, and more. As Don McLean said on his website: Metaphorically the song continues to evolve to the present time. It is not a nostalgia song. American Pie changes as America itself is changing. …but tumblr folks should also note two things. 1) Don McLean was a huge fan of Buddy Holly in high-school, and had no idea why the rest of the kids in his school didn’t get it. They didn’t even care when Buddy died. I mean, I went to school and mentioned it and they said, ‘So what?’ So I carried this yearning and longing, if you will, this weird sadness that would overtake me… Sound familiar? 2) Maybe it was more than just “weird sadness.” Don has talked about wrestling with depression – which of course is different than being sad. “American Pie” was a huge hit, but that only made things worse. The success I got with ‘American Pie’ really threw me off. It just shattered my lifestyle and made me quite neurotic and extremely petulant. I was really prickly for a long time. If the things you’re doing aren’t increasing your energy and awareness and clarity and enjoyment, then you feel as though you’re moving blindly. That’s what happened to me. I seemed to be in a place where nothing felt like anything, and nothing meant anything. Literally nothing mattered. It was very hard for me to wake up in the morning and decide why it was I wanted to get up. Sound familiar? This really is one of the most amazing pop songs ever recorded, for so many more reasons than most people ever talk about.

blackhistoryalbum: DIVAS: THE 70s —– Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, 1974.

wehadfacesthen: Cary Grant, 1937

maccaheartney: david lynch and isabella rossellini by helmut newton, 1988

twixnmix: Ebony magazine covers from 1971

suiesfine: So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway… we delivered the bomb. Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

gregorygalloway: 26-year-old Marlon Brando in a series of wardrobe tests for A Streetcar Named Desire, 9 August 1950. The film would be released in September 1951, and would earn Brando the first of four consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.

ohmy80s: 80’s Matthew Perry

petersonreviews: Tom Cruise in promotional photographs for Risky Business, 1983

ohmy80s: Winona Ryder @ the Premiere of Beetlejuice (1988)

aokayalright: Ray Liotta in ‘Goodfellas’ (1990)

aokayalright: Veronica Cartwright in ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ (1987)

ohmy80s: Sigourney Weaver (1989)

franciegummstarstruck: Judy Garland and daughter Liza Minnelli taking in a hug. circa. 1950s

janecurtin: Linda Ronstadt, Gilda Radner, and Steve Martin. November 30, 1978

jasonfnsaint: Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Bob Peck in Jurassic Park (1993)

lily–tomlin: Lily as Violet Newstead in 9 to 5 (1980)

twixnmix: Rebbie Jackson, Janet Jackson, LaToya Jackson and Randy Jackson in 1976.